I just noticed a strange situation; maybe it is a bug or can be explained some other way.

This is a screenshot of what I see; the top part is from Stack Overflow, and the bottom one from Meta Stack Overflow. I figured they should probably show the same values.

Update

Well, it has been 24 hours now and the reputation matches but I think this is probably just a coincidence since I happened to get a couple of up votes this morning on SO. The badges are still showing as different (the second badge on MSO was earned about 8 days ago now surely that is very old for a cache isn't it?).

Second Update

So when I updated this message I got the editor badge which made my badge total on MSO 3 and so now both sites agree.

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@Benny I thought so too at first, but then noticed that the discrepancy in rep was not due to recently lost rep (actual SO rep lower than stated on MSO page). Unless the drop is due to a recent recalc or vote-fraud adjustments?
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Shawn ChinApr 4 '12 at 9:21

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Also noted that the last badge he/she earned on MSO was a good 7 days ago. That's a rather stale loaf were it cached data.
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Shawn ChinApr 4 '12 at 9:25

@Benny the cache issue is on other metas. MSO has separate rep from SO.
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ManishearthApr 4 '12 at 9:26

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From your reputation changes at StackOverflow, I can see that your reputation has changed +5 just yesterday. This happened with me too when I signed up at careers.stackoverflow.com. After a day, I checked and it was updated. So my advice (Just an advice) is wait for at least 24 hours for your reputation to propagate to all the sites in StackExchange network because there is probably some caching mechanism across SE network.

Thanks, yeah, I am sure the rep thing will probably sort itself out but I wonder about the badge - I earned the badge on meta 7 days ago and it hasn't made it to the overview screen on stack overflow yet - that seems a bit of a long time doesn't it?
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kmpApr 4 '12 at 10:50